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  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h

Summary At the beginning of the Second World War Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino) is in command of the submarine Cappellini of the Italian Royal Navy. In October of the year 1940, while navigating in the Atlantic, the outline of a merchant ship comes into view, sailing without lights through the darkness of the night. She is the Kabalo, w...

Directed By: Edoardo De Angelis

Written By: Sandro Veronesi, Edoardo De Angelis

  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 2 h

Comandante

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary At the beginning of the Second World War Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino) is in command of the submarine Cappellini of the Italian Royal Navy. In October of the year 1940, while navigating in the Atlantic, the outline of a merchant ship comes into view, sailing without lights through the darkness of the night. She is the Kabalo, w...

Directed By: Edoardo De Angelis

Written By: Sandro Veronesi, Edoardo De Angelis

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Aug 30, 2023
Though he finds little room for subtlety and even less interest in complex moral shadings, director Edoardo De Angelis can still ably wring tension from this brave, if foolhardy, mission, spinning his camera around ever-cramped quarters as the two crews, enemies-turned-shipmates, navigate uncharted terrain.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 30, 2023
If the characters, apart from Salvatore, had been more developed, there might be more drama to it, but Comandante, in its honorable and slightly gloomy way, has been conceived as the delivery system for a humanitarian message.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 30, 2023
Comandante is a film designed to make Italians feel good about being Italian – about pasta, sentimental songs and strongly demarcated gender roles – while also telling them how to be good Italians – chiefly by saving people at sea, not blindly following orders and getting on with other Italians whose dialects they don’t understand.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 30, 2023
While De Angelis knows how to create visceral action and moments of intensity, he’s incapable of the slightest hint of subtlety.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 30, 2023
It offers a selection of sweaty, string-vesty, bulgy-bare-armsy scenes from the life of the real-life submarine commander Salvatore Todaro, played here by Pierfranceso Favino. It isn’t dreadful.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 30, 2023
De Angelis offers some muscular film-making, with decent action sequences.
By Catherine Bray FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Indigo Film, O' Groove, Tramp Ltd., VGroove, Wise Pictures, Rai Cinema, Beside Productions, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Regione Campania, Apulia Film Commission
Duration 2 h
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Awards

David di Donatello Awards
• 10 Nominations
Golden Ciak Awards
• 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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